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Social Media Conversation about Queer Theory & Pedagogy, May 4-6

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I believe it is important to address the challenges of teaching theory in a way that is inclusive of LGBT-parent families. ...For that reason I invited April Few-Demo, Áine Humble, Melissa Curran, and Sally Lloyd to write a reflexive article about their challenges teaching family theory, and their insights regarding how we might transform our curricula to be more LGBT relevant.

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Ramona Oswald

Date

May 03, 2016

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Social Justice is Required

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Feminist efforts will remain incomplete unless feminist family scholars resist the dynamics of a neoliberal landscape and engage in effective social justice projects with the goal of betterment of all people.

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Lee Ann De Reus, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State Altoona

Date

September 24, 2015

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Self-Reflexive Transformational Pedagogy

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Integrating queer and intersectional frameworks in family theories curricula requires deep and engaged self-reflexivity, a process undergirding our model for transformational pedagogy. Here,we present our definition of transformative pedagogy, a process we have envisioned as having five elements of moving into and within critical engagement.

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Is self-doubt good or bad for feminist scholars?

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We find it troubling that, after years of feminist contributions to the field of family studies, so many scholars may feel that they are "feminist frauds. Why do we continue to ask ourselves whether our work is "feminist enough?

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Qualitative Family Scholarship: Innovative Theories in the Interpretive Tradition

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"this special issue provides illustrations of how the vibrant interpretivist tradition can pursue paradoxes, contradictions, and nuances via careful decisions about epistemology and careful designs of congruity between epistemology and practice."

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Martin Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue and Implications for Qualitative Family Research

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As part of the special issue on qualitative family scholarship and innovative theories in the interpretive tradition, this article first examines the intersection of Buber's philosophy with the interpretive tradition in social science research.